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(MIDDLETON, WI) Hubbard Avenue in Middleton will be awash in yellow as the National Mustard Museum hosts its 26th annual National Mustard Day celebration on Saturday, August 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Last year’s event drew an estimated 7,000 mustard lovers and even more are expected to attend this year. Admission is free.


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Chennai: Liquor maker Radico Khaitan Ltd closed the first quarter of FY23 with a lower net profit of Rs.58.28 crore on higher income as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
The Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) maker has reported an operational income of Rs 3,188 crore and a net profit of Rs 58.28 crore for the period ended June 30.
For the corresponding period last year, the company had earned an operational income of about Rs 2,884 crore and a net profit of Rs 59.82 crore.
During the period under review, the company had sold 6.82 million cases, an increase of 21.5 per cent as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
"While there are near-term concerns around inflation, the recent softening of certain commodities, a normal monsoon and the policy measures undertaken by the government bode well for the industry," Lalit Khaitan, Chairman of Radico Khaitan, was quoted as saying in a statement.
According to him, the focus is on strengthening the company's premium brand portfolio.
With 'out-of-home' consumption picking up, white spirit brands have seen strong traction, said Abhishek Khaitan, Managing Director of Radico Khaitan.
He said the company is expanding its gin distillation capacity and to mitigate the inflationary pressure, it has taken steps like rationalisation of portfolio and value engineering across the supply chain.
Experts said India's consumption structure has been skewed in the past over a narrow base of richer consumers accounting for a large chunk of the overall market. However, as the economy is broadening across many more cities and the impact is reaching further down the income ladder, the opportunity for value-formats and value-brands is expanding.

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It seems as though retail space is more like a battle ground. Different companies and categories clutter the shelves fighting for consumers’ attention. Retailers don’t make it easy for beverage brands to get and keep that space either. So, how do beverage brands fight back? One of the answers is with their use of secondary packaging.
Although consumer demand is the overall driver, retailers also can have an effect on a beverage company, experts say. Additionally, changes within retail channels have caused secondary packaging to fight a war vying for consumers’ attention.
To highlight this fact, Proactive Packaging and Displays, Ontario, Calif., recently released a report titled “The New Retail Math.”
“The hurdles your brand faces today are numerous,” the report states. “More than ever, your packaging has to sell your product at a faster rate.”
As day-to-day life gets more hectic, time spent browsing in the store decreases, resulting in fewer impulse buys.
“Retail is really changing today,” says Charles Pavia, director of marketing at Proactive Packaging and Display. “Most of the action is happening around the perimeter of the store … and the beverages tend to be in the center of the store. That means that your packaging has to work extra hard.”
According to the report, the average time spent shopping decreased 12.5 percent, down to 43 minutes, between 2003 and 2011. “Today, shopping is more like a well-planned, precisely executed military campaign,” the report states. “[M]eaning for impulse purchases to occur, your packaging has to perform at a much higher level.”
Next there is the battle for shelf space. “Your product, to the retailer, is either a profit-maker or a place-taker,” Pavia says. “If it’s a place-taker, it’s not going to be on the shelf for long. Every day, each product has got to earn its shelf position.”
Beverage brands are fighting back with secondary packaging. One way they’re doing this is by using secondary packaging for display as well as shipping, according to Don Reggio, marketing director of corrugated containers at West Rock, formally Rock Tenn Corrugated. “The biggest thing right now is retail-ready designs,” he says.
West Rock offers a corrugated shipper that is perforated for easy transformation into a displayer. “If the secondary packaging is just a shipper, it ships to the store, and the store unboxes it and puts it on a shelf. Then all it did is protect in transit. If the shipper is to be displayed, then the brand image is usually printed on the case, so the customer recognizes the brand,” Reggio says.
A recent example comes from Kraft Food Group Inc.’s Capri Sun brand. The brand announced it partnered with Illumination Entertainment and Universal Picture’s film “Minions.” The campaign promises a visually outstanding in-store presence striving to catch consumers’ attention and boost impulse purchases, the company says.
Additionally, Reggio says that precision is important for secondary packaging. ”We have a patented design on forming containers around a fixed mandrel,” Reggio says. “We have a patented design on containers around precision manuform technology.
“The mandrel creates a form of the interior of the box, and the corrugated is wrapped around it and glued,” he continues. “So, when it’s ejected out of the machine, it’s dimensions are very accurate. It’s the same box every time. The precision allows for very tight packing, which allows for high speeds and robotics.”
According to Reggio, bending the corrugated board more than 90 degrees at the corner joints causes the fibers to break down, weakening the corners of the structure. “With the mandrel-formed case, the board is never folded past the finished corner,” he says.
Reggio says that West Rock also is exploring mixed-fiber substrates. The bottom of the package is solid fiber, and the top is corrugate. “It’s a two-piece design that’s also automatable,” he explains. “This allows for structure to support and protect in the store and in transit. Once in the store, the corrugated hood can be popped off, leaving a four-color tray on the shelf, which helps define shelf space.”
Consumers are being drawn to brands with more eco-friendly packaging options, experts say.
According to Chris Turner, director of sales at Roberts PolyPro, Charlotte, N.C., the company offers a convenient multipack that uses 35 percent less plastic than its competitors.
“Consumers are looking for a convenient way to carry and dispense beverages,” Turner says. “They also are very focused on the sustainability of the packaging and recyclability.”
Charles Mace, vice president of sales at Zumbiel Packaging, Hebron, Ky., agrees, “A lot of companies are looking at the whole sustainability feature of paperboard,” he says. “Even if it does hit a landfill, it’s biodegradable.”
The final battle strategy focuses on graphics and product information. Secondary packaging now is being utilized to offer more information and exciting consumer experiences.
Consumers want to be able to find nutrition information quickly and easily.
“Secondary packaging has begun to include a lot of information that used to be on the primary container only,” says Tom Zumbiel, marketing and sustainability director at Zumbiel Packaging. “We do a lot more printing of ingredient labels and health statements, etc.
Proactive’s Pavia says this has been especially noticeable with pouch products. “The consumer doesn’t see the pouch. They buy a carton that has 18 pouches in it, so they’re going to want to know what’s in it,” he explains.
Pavia explains that more and more consumers today tend to focus on nutrition panels, so the panels need to be printed with high clarity because that’s where the smallest point sizes are found. “If it doesn’t print how it’s supposed to, most people will put it back on the shelf… They’ll question the product quality if they can’t read the package,” he says.
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A new internet security scam tries to get users to click a link in an effort to turn their Facebook profile pink, but security experts warn that the link is faulty and may lead to a compromised account.
Large-scale internet shoe retailer Zappos.com may need to increase the amount of internet security they use after a data breach compromised customers billing addresses and credit card numbers. The websites' discount affiliate 6pm.com reported the breach, but the company said the data breach didnt' affect payment data.
Stratfor, a security think tank that fell victim to hackers within the last month, was targeted once again. Stratfor is telling subscribers that they may be targeted by an internet security breach in the form of false and misleading communications from cyber criminals.
People who access their bank accounts should have antivirus software ready to go either way, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation now warns that an email going around tries to phish personal information from people. The scam says the email is either from the National Automated Clearing House Association, the Federal Reserve Bank or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and has a virus that allows access to online bank accounts.
Last year showed that scammers will go to lengths to get personal information, credit card numbers and more from users. Internet security and common sense should be used, as the Better Business Bureau released their list of the top scams from last year, with the BBB phishing scam at the top.
Credit card information of thousands of Israeli people was released on the internet by hackers claiming to be Saudi Arabian this week. According to The Associated Press, it was a politically motivated attack. This shows that people, no matter where they are, should have good internet security protocol in place. Hackers called on web browsers to make illegal purchases with the cards, according to Israel News.


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After hitting record highs over the summer, bacon prices have come down to earth—and even cheaper prices are on the way.
The retail price of bacon hit an all-time high during the summer of 2014, but has since retreated, dropping 5.7% by early December, according to Bloomberg News. What's more, all signs indicated at the time that prices for pork, ham, and bacon would keep on decreasing. "Hogs and pork are almost surely going to be cheaper, particularly compared to beef, next year,” Doane Advisory Services economist Dan Vaught said.
Sure enough, pork prices are plunging in early 2015. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that farmers have rebounded from a virus that decimated pig herds in 2013 and early 2014, and that the nation is riding high on the hog in terms of a record number of pigs approaching slaughter weight. Forecasts call for an all-time high of 23.9 billion pounds of pork to be produced in the U.S. in 2015.
“It’s amazing. We’ve gone from ‘We’re going to run out of pork!’ to ‘What are we going to do with all of this meat?’” John Nalivka, president of the Oregon-based agriculture-advisory firm Sterling Marketing Inc., told the Journal.
Well, one thing they're clearly going to do is cut prices. Hogs are currently trading at four-year lows on the futures market. Supermarkets are paying less for pork wholesale, and they have begun passing along the savings in the form of cheaper ham, pork loins, and yes, bacon. Last summer, the average retail price for a pound of bacon was over $6 per pound. By December 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a pound of bacon was averaging $5.53 in U.S. grocery stores, and $5.10 in the Midwest.
The funny thing about bacon is that people love it so much that demand stays incredibly high even when prices rise, and the masses are prone to panic with the slightest hint of bacon being in short supply. And when bacon prices become cheaper, that's a justification for some bacon lovers to take their bacon consumption to the next level. Businesses that profit on bacon-aholics will surely be more than happy to help. Look for more bacon to be incorporated into restaurant menus and on sale at supermarkets in the months ahead.


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Whether it’s $3,600 marijuana cigar or a $2,000 marijuana subscription box, a new luxury marijuana niche market is evolving for big spenders. A newly released study revealed that upscale marijuana consumers do exist, and that 65% have combined household incomes of at least $75,000.
The study also found that roughly 84% of upscale marijuana lovers have full-time jobs, reports Forbes.
The AuBox service offers two types of high-end subscription boxes. Depending on the status of marijuana in your state, you may be able to purchase THC products and CBD products. Former Miss Iowa, Jessica VerSteeg, founded AuBox. For now though, AuBox is only available in the San Francisco area. She considers AuBox to be the “gold standard in luxury marijuana,” as “Au” is the chemical symbol for gold.
The AuBox service allows men and women to order gender specific boxes. Some product options include Dark Heart Alchemy vapes, Pot-O-Coffee and 24-carat gold rolling papers. A single month’s trial of the service is $150.
ClubM is another high-end marijuana subscription service. One product, the M1K, sells for $1,000 but features big brands like True Humboldt and LolaLola Cannabis. Packages from ClubM are delivered in humidors or leather purses and include flower, vape items, accessories and edibles. They have a more expensive box too: the M2Box, which sells for $2,000.
ClubM co-founder, Chris Husong said, “This isn’t just a bigger box. This is a box with hyper-premium quality product. Frankly, it’s product most people can’t afford but ClubM members are clamoring for it.” ClubM membership is invitation only, and runs about $97 per month.
A Seattle dispensary recently sold a marijuana cigar for $3,600. The giant cigar contained 28 grams of marijuana, seven grams of oil, and took nearly six weeks to cure.
Luxury marijuana businesses are popping up throughout the U.S. fill the demand for high-end products and services for people seeking to live the high life.


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Since the introduction of in-app purchases to Apple's iOS App Store, there have been multiple cases of children making large purchases of freemium game upgrades without their parents' permission. A new warning in the App Store attempts to lessen the chance of that happening in the future.
Apple has begun putting warnings below the download links of free games that offer additional material that require payments. When an iPhone or iPad user browses the App Store on a desktop computer, the phrase "Offers in-App Purchases" appears directly below the download button. Apple hopes that giving that heads-up will force parents to be more mindful of what apps to allow their children to use and monitor to make sure that in-app purchases are not made.
The warning is so far not enough to put an end to children running up large bills while their parents aren't looking. The warning is not particularly noticeable and only appears when browsing in iTunes on a desktop, not when browsing the App Store on an iPhone or iPad. It might make more sense to have a more prominent warning when downloading, but until then, the onus will remain on parents to pay extra attention to what types of apps they download or allow their children to access.source: Apple Insider
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Ever since the corona virus epidemic has spread in the world, online frauds have increased significantly. Meanwhile, security researchers have warned users about a new delivery scam that is trying to trick users. Scammers send messages containing scam links through WhatsApp and inform users about their online orders. Innocent users become victims of scams and lose all their bank savings. If you are smart and careful, then you will never fall into such scams, but if you click on these links without thinking, scammers can take advantage of this thing.
Russian security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have issued a warning about a package delivery scam that is growing rapidly. Researchers have revealed that scammers masquerade as executives of online delivery companies. They then inform the person about a package that needs to be delivered to their home. However, this process is not as easy as it appears.
Cybercriminals then ask users to click on the link that is provided with the message to complete the process. They are asked to make a small payment to ensure that their product is delivered safely to their home.
How hackers carry out fraud
Incidents like this have increased significantly in the last 3 months, in which a small payment is asked for an unknown parcel. The reason for invoicing ‘Mail Company’ can be anything from custom duty to shipment payment. Kaspersky Lab said that, when trying to pay for the service, along with the compensation fraud, users are taken to a fake website where not only do they pay for the product, but also bank cards and accounts. The information is also left on the website.
When you buy something from Amazon or Flipkart, you know what you ordered and when the parcel will be delivered to you. This is because you have a tracker on the app, which keeps you informed about your product. No company will ever ask you to make a payment to ensure safe delivery, even if you have opted for cash on delivery mode of payment. In such a situation, no additional payment will be taken, no matter what happens.
Advice for users…
The researchers have asked users to be wary of such emails and to always check the source of messages that do not seem to be very credible. You should never click on a link that does not contain the correct website address or looks suspicious. It is recommended to install a security solution to keep such threats and phishing attacks away.


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The Co-op has partnered with Amazon Prime to allow customers to get their grocery shopping delivered by robots.
The service launched in Glasgow on Thursday, September 16, and is expected to be rolled out across the UK before the end of 2021.
The national supermarket chain is looking to expand online sales from £70m to £200m and has turned to Amazon Prime to try and make this possible, offering same-day deliveries on groceries.
Customers with Amazon Prime subscriptions will be able to shop for Co-op items on the Amazon website, with two-hour scheduled slots each day.
The number of robots delivering groceries is due to rise from 200 to 500 by the end of the year, as part of an additional step from the Amazon collection lockers which were installed outside some Co-op stores in 2012.
The autonomous vehicles are part of a partnership with Starship Technologies, with which the Co-op already deals with to deliver £70m a year of groceries, along with Deliveroo.
The rapid-fire delivery service will offer free deliveries for orders over £40, and a minimum shop of £15, though it is currently not available in Lincolnshire.
The Co-op has faced scrutiny after signing the deal, with many questioning the ethics of online giants Amazon, but say this partnership is about reaching more people quicker.
A spokesperson for the Co-op group said: “We aren’t compromising our ethics and principles and the extension of the partnership is about getting our ethically sourced products into the hands of more people.
“It reflects the support Co-op members have shown for Amazon’s products by using its lockers and click and collect services through hundreds of our stores for a number of years.
“We also see major opportunities in co-operating with one of the world’s biggest tech companies to tackle some of the big issues, from climate change to youth skills and opportunities.”
Co-op group chief executive Steve Murrells said: “The pandemic has accelerated changes in consumer shopping trends and we’re driving forward with exciting plans to provide rapid kerb to kitchen grocery delivery services.
“We are delighted to be working with Amazon. Its reach and leading technology and innovative approach means greater convenience for people in their communities.
“This, combined with our extended partnership with Starship Technologies, marks a significant milestone in our online strategy.”


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Alber Elbaz, the creative director of Lanvin, is eager to try any experiments. No sooner had we bought the dresses from his capsule collection for H&M, as the information about the new partnership appeared: the designer is preparing a line of cosmetics in collaboration with Lancome.
The products represent the master’s typical style: they are bright, flirty, and ironic. The new items will not be available on sale until June this year, so true fashionista are already wondering, if this project will be the first step towards the revival of the brand’s makeup heritage.
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DNF Develops Camera Shading Tech With CNN
NORTHRIDGE, CALIF.—Camera shading now has a one button-press technology after a recent collaboration between DNF Controls and CNN. According to Dan Fogel, DNF chief technology officer, the company was able to help CNN’s Los Angeles production center remove a manual step in the camera shading workflow that would often cause errors in the coverage of live events.
To help with this new technology, DNF used its GTP-32 control processor. With the processor, a signal from the Sony panel triggers the correct router crosspoint, which then sends that camera’s video to the shading monitor.
DNF Controls is a device control interface provider, offering human-to-human and machine-to-machine systems.
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Carrie Cook, from Louisville, Tenn., started her Facebook post by saying, "Wouldn't check a bag with American Airlines if I were you."
Cook claims her bag on an American flight from Knoxville to New York City was "dragged, a few items lost & several melted together."
She shared her surprise with 10News via Skype as she is currently in New York on her trip.
"I'm standing there waiting for my luggage and I see this bag coming toward me, and it's all ripped to shreds and half the handle is missing and things look like they are about to fall out," said Cook. "I think to myself oh my god, that poor person, that's horrible and then it gets closer wait a second, I think that's my bag marker, wait a second, that's my favorite tank top, I'm that poor person."
The pictures she took show holes in her luggage, melted parts and her clothes completely exposed.
"Lucky I bought new underwear since it got strewn across God knows where at the airport," Cook joked.
According to Cook, American Airlines responded to her claim, but it was an automated response sent to her email inbox.
Cook took her concerns to American Airlines' Facebook page. They responded by saying: "Oh no we're so sorry to see this happened. Please continue working with our baggage service team towards a resolution."
From her experience, Cook said it seemed American Airlines' priorities lie with policies not people.
"What happened to customer service? What happened to the customer is always right?" Cook asked.
WBIR 10News has also reached out to American Airlines for comment but have not heard back.


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Final Fantasy XVI, the latest mainline entry in Square Enix’s iconic RPG franchise, released in June of last year for PS5, but PC players are still waiting to find out when they’ll get their hands on the game. Well that time might be coming sooner rather than later, according to producer Naoki Yoshida. In a recent Game Informer interview,Yoshida said that the PC port of the game is in “the final stages of optimization.”
Originally announced back in September 2023, the PC version of FF16 hasn’t made any official appearances in the following months. Instead, the FF16 team has been focused on its two pieces of post-release DLC. The first of which, Echoes of the Fallen, released in December and the second of which, The Rising Tide, is set to release this spring. FF16 had a six-month exclusivity period on PS5 that went up at the end of January, so fans have been eagerly awaiting news of a release date for the PC port.
Yoshida didn’t give a specific release date to Game Informer, saying that the release is dependent on how long optimization takes. This optimization includes figuring out exactly what the system requirements for players will be, with Yoshida saying that these are, “looking to be somewhat high.” Wesley LeBlanc, the journalist who wrote the piece and interviewed Yoshida, speculated on social media that the PC version will be ready around FF16’s one year anniversary this June.
That feels like a good bet, considering it would give the developers time to release the second and final piece of DLC for the game this spring and offer a complete edition for both PS5 and PC around its anniversary. Whenever the game does finally get a release date for PC, Yoshida assures us that a demo for the game will be available so that they can make sure their rig will actually be able to run the game.


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In 2013, the power went out during Super Bowl XLVII and a team of creatives and media planners responded with Oreo’s “You Can Still Dunk in The Dark” tweet. It raised the bar for quick thinking in a time when brands were still getting used to being “part of the conversation.”
Nearly a decade later, marketers largely have processes in place to seize such creative opportunities. But when the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive shift in consumer priorities and behavior, the impulse was put to the test. After all, how do marketers participate in a conversation characterized by unprecedented fear and uncertainty?
For some, it was a time to pause activity—a safe strategy, though not entirely without risk. As Jason Kanefsky, chief investment officer at Havas Media said, "There is a risk of losing brand equity when advertising goes dark, and an opportunity to use this time to build and reinforce a brand’s relationship with their customers and prospects.”
It’s the "how" that poses the biggest challenge. In a time when health and safety are top of mind, brands must consider consumer needs beyond the typical framework of a product offering. That is to say, if you’re going to meet your audience with messaging, you need to meet them where they are. Here are a few different approaches we have observed:
Be present, but acknowledge the situation
The first waves of social distancing in the U.S. coincided with St. Patrick’s Day. Alcohol and spirits brands needed to act quickly to adapt messaging for the tentpole marketing event. Jameson acknowledged social distancing with “Take the spirit of the bar home.” Guinness’ video message likewise leaned into social distancing. In both cases, brands introduced comfort and reassurance by remaining present, but acknowledging the new normal.
Deliver a unifying message, creatively
Social distancing gave marketers a productive way to address the crisis; even if their products or services experienced decreased demand, they could help get that important message out.
For example, Nike delivered a spot-on brand experience celebrating the stay-at-home athlete. Uber struck multiple emotional chords when it flipped its usual call to action: “Stay home for everyone who can’t.” Visit Las Vegas also promoted the importance of staying home, while reassuring audiences that better days are ahead.
Inspire action and support
Some brands put their creative energy toward giving. Tyson Foods, among others, supported restaurant relief by participating in the #greatamericantakeout campaign, while Little Caeser’s #pieitforward delivered pizzas to frontline healthcare workers. Budweiser shifted its sports budget to support the American Red Cross with its #oneteam initiative. And, in a time when toilet paper is flying off the shelves, Cottonelle opted to support the United Way with a #Shareasquare campaign.
Help people adjust to the new normal
Social distancing forced everyone to find new ways to meet necessities, but there was a lot of confusion along the way. What stores are open? Which restaurants deliver?
McDonald’s text-only video stepped in with clarity, reminding audiences of its delivery options. Walgreens also offered answers with a video explaining what services were available for social-distancing customers. “Hyundai Assurance” went one step further by offering car payment support to customers who’ve lost their jobs.
Offer humor—but carefully
As much as everyone appreciates humor right now, it is a delicate route for marketers to take. Still, there were some notable creative moves from brands, including Trojan’s memorable social distancing copy that prompted audiences to “Sext us instead.” Burger King France delighted social media with its “Le Whopper De La Quarantaine” graphic, while Jeep got additional mileage from its Super Bowl Groundhog Day effort, playing up the repetitive nature of lockdown life. These creatives were successful because they invoked humor gently; they didn’t ask us to roll on the floor laughing.
At a time when health and safety are universally top priorities, it is inspiring to see so many marketers embrace creative solutions. These specific messages offer utility, comfort and humor. More broadly, the presence of trusted brands delivers a sense of reassurance in stressful times.
Of course, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to evolve, so will creative marketing. Brands will naturally move past calls for social distancing to new themes. The coming wave of creative “re-opening” messages is something we can all look forward to.


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A research review done at the University of Washington has concluded that the evidence that cancer is associated with eating unprocessed meat is weak.
Their work has been published in the Nature Medicine journal.
The team "conducted a systematic review and implemented a meta-regression ... to evaluate the relationships between unprocessed red meat consumption and six potential health outcomes” and found "weak evidence” between unprocessed meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease.
They said there is no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke; and that while there is some evidence that eating unprocessed red meat is associated with increased risk of disease incidence and mortality, "it is weak and insufficient to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations."
More rigorous, well-powered research is needed, they concluded, to better understand and quantify the relationship between consumption of unprocessed red meat and chronic disease.
Most of the studies the team reviewed compared the health of one group of people eating a lot of unprocessed meat with another group that ate little meat.


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What will happen to the crypto markets when measurable firm takes full effect and also the Federal Get racks the money printer?
Bitcoin has never ever once in its history been in a bull market while the Federal Reserve did measurable tightening.”The Fed is culling assets harder and much faster than a great deal of experts had expected and also it’s challenging to envision this won’t have some kind of effect on financier belief across markets. The overall crypto market cap ruptured from$162 billion on March 23, 2020, to a peak of just over$3 trillion last November.”Furthermore, we anticipate a market bounce imminently, implying financiers should be positioning portfolios to capitalise on this. Crypto market analyst Economiser discussed in a Might 31 tweet that if individuals wind up with even more money in their pockets from their greater
earnings,”the crypto market might ultimately benefit”from QT.Wage equal rights: Interestingly, the highest wage growth is in the hospitality & retail sectors.This might indicate that the United States comes out of this financial recession with ↓ income inequality.And if even more people have disposable revenue, the crypto market might eventually profit.


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Cover Story: Beyond the Smartphone: The Next Big Thing
The semiconductor industry has been on a roll, pushing well past $300 billion in annual revenues. But with smartphones and tablets showing signs of slowing down, the industry’s perennial question returns: What is the next big thing?
Lacking a clear consensus on specifics, most market watchers nonetheless agree that it will have something to do with the Internet of Things (IoT). A June 2014 report by International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that sales of billions of smart, connected gadgets like Google Glass will generate a stunning $7.1 trillion in annual sales by 2020, with most of the total in services and supporting software.
According to Rob Lineback, an analyst at IC Insights, some people in the industry are looking for one or two huge growth drivers; others believe the next big thing will be made up of many products to serve many markets.
Automotive electronics is a large segment that is showing healthy growth, he said. Wireless medical systems and fitness trackers are generating a lot of interest, and the category is projected to grow by a CAGR of about 37%, reaching $4.7 billion in 2017. The semiconductor content, however, “is just not big enough to move the needle much for a $300 billion industry,” said Lineback, who co-authored the IC Insights IC Market Drivers Report.
He noted that medical systems are set to grow to about $65 billion by 2017, while medical semiconductors are roughly a $5 billion market this year and forecast to grow to $6.8 billion by 2017—a relatively small market compared with PCs or smartphones.
“When we look ahead, there are plenty of things to watch. Some will be a fad, a flash in the pan, while others may take hold. It’s the old saying: ‘You don’t know what the next big thing is until you get there,’” Lineback said.
A Medical Breakthrough?
Eileen Tanghal, director of Applied Ventures LLC, a venture capital fund, sees medical as a prime IoT opportunity. A variety of medical testing, personal diagnostic, gene sequencing, and drug discovery procedures are still being done on glass slides in labs, using labor-intensive methods.
“Replacing those with silicon-based testing would significantly reduce the cost-per-test and speed up the ability to develop new drugs,” she said, estimating that if the medical testing and remote diagnostics industries in the developed nations move to silicon-based solutions, it could add about $1.2 billion to the worldwide semiconductor equipment market. If these tools are adopted worldwide, the impact on the silicon equipment industry could reach the $5 billion level.
Food production and clean energy are two other areas ripe for silicon-based solutions, according to Tanghal.
Charting a Course for IoT Data
Mike Rosa, a MEMS expert and senior strategic and technical marketing manager for 200mm Emerging Technology Products at Applied Materials, believes that the semiconductor industry’s next wave lies in the thousands of IoT device applications for sensors, microcontrollers and communications that will combine to help people make decisions. “But generating value out of the data, gathering the right data to make an informed decision: therein lies the value of the Internet of Things,” he said.
Indeed, thinking primarily about the connected gadgets at the “edge” of a network is selling the IoT short. Alongside the low-cost edge devices are gateways, cloud-based computing and all of the services and software required to analyze the data streaming in from edge devices.
While much attention is focused on the low-cost “intelligent edge” devices, David Formisano, Intel’s director of strategy of integrated Internet of Things, said Intel will profit from the need for gateway products and cloud-based computing services. As data comes streaming in from sensors, gateway systems will filter data so as not to overwhelm the network infrastructure. “A gateway device would decide: ‘Is this important? Should I send it or not?’”
Speaking at SEMI’s recent IoT conference, held in Austin, Texas, Formisano said the first IoT waves are being seen in industrial applications, such as sensor-driven systems for manufacturing semiconductors, chemicals, and other high-value products. “Intel is using the IoT to make our chips. Gone are the run cards affixed to the run box. Today’s leading-node factories rely on high levels of advanced process control and large amounts of data coming through the sensor networks,” he said.
Figure 1. The Internet of Things will create a dramatic transformation in industrial economies, as connected devices, cloud-based computing, and Big Data analytics converge. The biggest impact, already underway, is in manufacturing, with an estimated $3.9 trillion in added value over the next ten years.
“Also interesting is this notion of ‘brown field’ things, which refers to the 85% of the things out there which are not connected. Street lights are still not intelligent, semi-trailer trucks are still not part of a fleet management system. To get them connected you don’t have to build a brand new bus, or truck, or train. So there is a lot of excitement today in getting today’s things on the IoT,” Formisano said.
As demand for IoT devices skyrockets, Jeremy Read, head of service marketing at Applied Global Services, said semiconductor manufacturers increasingly will upgrade their existing 200mm tools to run the modern automation software and advanced process control (APC) applications that are key parts of what he calls an industrial IoT (IIoT) approach to chipmaking. Data gathered from APC technologies and by sensors attached to thousands of machines can be used to detect, classify, diagnose, control, predict and prevent various failure modes. “It is the new data that makes predictive maintenance a reality,” Read said.
Standards and Security
Bill Curtis, director of new business development at ARM, Ltd., argued that much work remains to be done to develop the standards required for high-volume IoT markets. “The things around us are increasingly smart and connected, creating an opportunity for shipping billions of devices. However, today we live in a siloed world. There are many different standards, and almost none of the stuff out there can communicate.”
Formisano said the corporate world needs interoperability standards so that IT and operations organizations can share data. And ever since the public became aware of how much data is being secretly gathered, security and privacy concerns are increasing. “Security and privacy is a big challenge. The government is interested in the IoT, but almost every week is asking, ‘How do we deal with the privacy and security issues?’”
Costs are another major concern. To put a sensor, control circuitry, Internet communications capabilities, and some form of energy harvesting on an edge device selling for less than a dollar or two is a formidable challenge. Curtis points to ARM cores aimed at IoT applications: 32-bit processors consisting of just 12,000 gates. “The processors are pretty doggone small. Going forward we will want a world of very small, very cheap devices,” he said. And a whole new world of communications protocols is evolving to ensure that data can be sent over the Internet at very low levels of power consumption.
Rajiv Kumar, marketing manager at Freescale Semiconductor’s microcontroller unit, said tiny 32-bitters are powerful enough to recognize hand-motion interfaces, such as those used on NEST home controllers. Kumar sees the IoT putting new vigor into the electronics industry, as startups work on “very tangible problems” across all walks of life. “Now, almost everyone has a mobile phone, and tablets compete with PCs for market share. I see the next wave as a lot of connected waves, becoming more and more relevant.”
Freescale offers a multitude of IoT-class microcontrollers, using a Lego-like building-block approach to quickly configure ARM-based solutions. And design teams can download tools and use credit-card sized development boards to quickly come up with IoT-type solutions for hundreds of markets, Kumar said.
Printed Electronics Needed?
Rosa said he believes silicon-based solutions will not be inexpensive enough to meet the cost targets mandated by many IoT applications. Printed electronics on cheap plastic substrates will finally come to the fore, undercutting the cost to process silicon wafers. While some market research firms predict that a trillion sensors will be in use by 2020 or 2022, Rosa said that is unlikely unless production costs are driven down. “There are about 12–14 billion MEMS in use today, so a trillion sensors by 2020 is not going to happen unless we can cut the manufacturing costs by one to two orders of magnitude.”
Dean Freeman, semiconductor manufacturing analyst at Gartner, said printed electronics are appealing, but thus far they haven’t found a commercial high-volume application. “Many of the IoT-class MCUs and communications devices will be made in 300mm fabs, using legacy process technology.”
Freeman calculates that 10 billion IoT things, each with an average of three MEMs devices, may be made in 2020. That would create demand for about 22 new or converted 200mm fabs, each running 50k wafers per month. “That is assuming an 80% yield and a 4mm2 device. That is about 1.1 to 1.2 million wafer starts per month,” he said. Viewed another way, a moderately successful IoT market would add about 10% to the annual wafer fab equipment (WFE) expenditures, about equal to today’s market for refurbished equipment, he added.
The Next Big Thing: IoT or I Don’t Know?
So all of this debate leaves us with a few questions: Will the next big thing rely more on chip technology, new materials technology, or software? Or all of the above? And at the end of the day, what is it that will have us lining up at some big-box store at midnight to buy one?
Applied Ventures’ Tanghal, who considers herself an optimist, firmly believes that something will emerge as a high-volume, high-value product akin to what the smartphone has been since 2007. The next big thing is out there, she said, probably being developed by young people in ambitious startups with dreams of a buy-out by companies like Google, Amazon, or others. Maybe personal robots, drones or other forms of human assistance systems will be winners. Or something else?
“Innovation doesn’t stop,” said Tanghal.
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Stylitics was privileged to speak at the Decoded Fashion Conference at the hyper glam Lincoln Center on Monday. As part of the close-knit fashion-tech community, we got the inside scoop from the brightest in the biz and want to take this opportunity to share some of our takeaways with you!
The Decoded Fashion Conference, presented by Tecna Media and Lincoln Center, was the first of its kind to bring together innovators and tastemakers in two of the most dynamic industries: fashion and technology. With highlights including speakers Rebecca Minkoff, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, Andy Dunn of Bonobos, and our very own CEO and Co-founder, Rohan Deuskar, it was a truly inspiring day with some of the most successful, game-changing companies in the industry and some of the best street-style I’ve seen on a Monday morning to date.
Founder Liz Bacelar sought to create a forum in which the best and brightest in fashion and technology could connect with entrepreneurs and startups who are pushing the innovation envelope and building the platforms that will drive retailers’ bottom lines. The buzzwords of the day were social engagement, curated content, and data. So I strapped on my heels and ordered my (skim) latte and braced myself for an eye-opening day.
Is it fashion without fur and a mocha? The short answer: no. Sadly this is not me in the picture; I left my fur at home. Photo c/o Social Media News NY.
“Social media should be personal. If it seems like you’re trying to sell something, it won’t work.” – Rebecca Minkoff
After attendees settled in to the sprawling Alice Tully Hall with their various iterations of java, the conference started with a discussion on content-driven commerce with panelists Rebecca Minkoff, Carla Dunham, the director of Social Media at Saks, Amy Cole of Instagram, and Noah Brier, co-founder of Percolate. Saks is known for their amazing shoe floor, and Carla Dunham represented the brand well in a pair of unrivaled metallic heels that I decided I must promptly own. The panelists agreed that, while social engagement doesn’t always drive conversion directly, the consumer will remember the relationships they have cultivated with a brand via social media when they go to make a buying decision.
Rebecca Minkoff has been somewhat of a pioneer in her use of social media with her Minkette blog. The blog was inspired by bloggers who had dubbed themselves “Minkettes” and has served as a major platform to foster blogger relationships and tell her product story. She spoke about a 360 degree approach to social media, in which someone wears her product and she then blogs, tweets, and Instagrams it. While very grassroots, this type of approach drives intimate consumer engagement, which translates into closer ties to the brand. I have to admit, I was a bit starstruck during this panel and had to resist the urge to ask Carla who made her shoes and announce irreverently that I was, in fact, carrying a Rebecca Minkoff bag…
iPhone moment: Attendees stay current on their big 5 social media channels. Photo c/o Social Media News NY.
Later, designers Stacey Bendet (in an adorable belted dress with a printed purple skirt and Peter Pan collar), Nicole Miller, and Deborah Lloyd of Kate Spade agreed that the key to social media lies in telling a consistent story via the many channels you have available, while at the same time matching the content to your medium. Consensus was also reached on the fact that you really do need to be on all mediums, especially the “big 5” (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest). This led to general anxiety and Deborah Lloyd admitting that she tries to vacation in places that don’t have cell reception… I hear you.
Noah of Percolate refers to juggling all of these platforms as balancing your stock and flow. Stock, in this case, refers to the big pieces of media: the blog posts, videos, photos, things that will be around 30 days from now. Flow is the everyday, the tweets, the Instagrams, the Facebook updates, that make consumers feel connected on a real-time level. The challenge is achieving a balance while telling a consistent story. And the key to a great story is authenticity. Melisa Goldie, Chief Creative Officer at Calvin Klein, said it best: a consumer today is more likely to avoid a brand that claims perfection in favor of one with a little more controversy. To prove this point, she flashed a flawless picture of a half-naked man wearing Calvin Klein boxer briefs on the screen. This was my personal highlight of the conference…
As an aside, this panel won the best-dressed award for the day in my book. Image tweeted by @CeciliaNY
As if the big 5 weren’t enough, other media outlets, most notably video, have allowed retailers to reach a new level of consumer engagement. Videos are no longer purely for entertainment; rather, companies like WireWax allow customers to click through from videos to purchase product directly from retailers, sometimes achieving a click through rate as high as 58% (this might be because viewers were prompted to click on a model in a bikini, but we’re giving them the benefit of the doubt!). Others, like StyleHaul, aggregate fashion and beauty videos on the web, allowing consumers to access beauty and fashion advice from real people offering more authentic, trusted content. Increasing the interactivity doubles the time people spend on videos, and allowing them to buy directly from video maximizes conversion.
The fashion elite check in. Photo c/o Social Media News NY.
“In three to four years, the consumer is going to expect an extremely personalized, curated experience.” – Rohan Deuskar, Stylitics
Daniel Saynt moderated a panel on social curation, which turned out to be the buzzword of the day. Moral of the story? Curation used to be an exclusive dictatorship. Today, everyone can play, and everyone can win.
Founder and CEO of Tumblr, David Karp, deftly dressed in a suit, a skinny tie, and some white kicks, noted that, while Tumblr is ultimately a creative platform, it has amassed a large community of curators who filter this original content, allowing the creators to draw a much larger audience. This trend of curation has clearly carried over into the fashion and retail arena.
From enlisting celebrities and stylists to curate content on sites like Ahalife or Feyt to using a crowdsourcing model to curate content from fellow users like Buyosphere, it’s all about cutting through the clutter and delivering what the consumer wants in the quickest way possible. E-commerce has shifted from search-based purchasing to recommendation-based purchasing, essentially influencing consumers to buy things they didn’t initially realize they needed (which is great news for my wallet).
Great minds sit alike. Photo c/o Social Media News NY.
“Analytics are a new ‘superpower’ to be embraced by retailers.” – Rohan Deuskar, Stylitics
Another significant Decoded theme was the importance of data, not just for retailers, but for consumers as well, and establishing the connection between this data and actual sales results. Rohan, CEO and co-founder of Stylitics, said that the “willingness of consumers to share more has opened up doors. Analytics are a new ‘superpower’ to be embraced by retailers.” Lilly Berelovich, President of Fashion Snoops, emphasized that consumers, too, are using this data to figure out what to buy. ”It’s no longer a crystal ball,” she says. Geoff Watts, co-founder of Editd, says the burden has shifted to the retailer to react to what the customer is demanding. In essence, the retailer now has the ability to know exactly what the customer wants, and the customer expects to get it. However, providing preference data isn’t enough; it’s about tracking action, and how these actions translate into sales.
In addition to personal style data, sizing data is playing an important role, especially when it comes to e-commerce. Companies like Clothes Horse use a customer’s basic measurements coupled with an algorithm to make specific sizing recommendations in hopes of minimizing online returns. Vik Venkatraman of Clothes Horse says “there are going to be a lot of ways for people to discover great product; however, discovery isn’t enough - you need to know if the clothes will fit.”
The Crystal Ball Approach to Consumer Behavior, featuring our very own Rohan Deuskar, 2nd from left and lost in thought.
“The company may own the copyright, but they can’t exclusively own the brand.” – Melisa Goldie, Calvin Klein
All of these real-time analytics beg the question, though, of what will happen to the creative process and the traditional runway model. By the end of the discussion, panelists were questioning the relationship between designers, buyers, media, bloggers, and data, and whether the traditional Fashion Week will cease to exist. The crowd was up in arms at the mere suggestion.
This model fell even further into question when the conversation shifted to consumer-powered design and the changing role of the consumer in the creative process. Companies like Stylyt are allowing customers to participate in the creative process, letting them customize virtual items and then manufacturing them as limited edition pieces. Nina Cherny, co-founder of Stylyt, says that involvement in the design process is a way to engage with consumers and gauge what they will actually like and buy. The concept of consumer-influenced designed made some of the designers nervous. Ari Goldberg of Stylecaster, however, said that co-creation and collaborative design is the future, and brands that understand what consumers want are the ones who will still be around a year from now.
As Melisa of Calvin Klein puts it, in an era of social media, the company may own the copyright, but they can’t exclusively own the brand. Panelists agreed that the next collections won’t be influenced by the latest movies or celebrities, but very possibly by a popular Pinterest board. (Which very well could be ours! Are you following Stylitics on Pinterest?)
“I like to change behavior, not human nature.”
After an exclusive networking lunch peppered with scintillating conversation on topics that will change the face of retail as we know it (that occurred while I was relegated to the public dining room downstairs, unfortunately), a final theme emerged: bridging the gap between online and offline shopping. Trying on a garment increases a customer’s likelihood of buying it by 6 times, but every second between the time the buying decision is made and the point of purchase decreases the likelihood that the transaction will take place. New technologies designed to streamline checkout are further cutting out the human element of shopping, while still enabling customers to have the tactile buying experience. In-store kiosks allowing customers to shop online from the store, tablets that enable customers to purchase directly from the dressing room, and Mobibucks, which allows customers to pay directly from their mobile phones, all seek to minimize this lag. As one panelist put it, these technologies aim to “change human behavior, not human nature,” by getting customers from decision to payment as fast as possible.
Sporting sequins. Photo c/o Social Media News NY.
In closing, while engagement, curation, and data are clearly the future, you can’t have a sustainable business without authenticity and a great product. According to Rebecca Minkoff, “social media should be personal. If it seems like you’re trying to sell something, it won’t work.” The role of technology is becoming increasingly important in the retail landscape, as two important groups of tastemakers from the fashion and technology industries join forces. The Decoded Fashion Conference was merely a preview of the exciting collaborations, technologies, and products that will govern the future of retail, and we feel honored and excited to have taken part.
By the end of the conference, all attendees came to the consensus that we had solved the world’s problems and it was time for cocktail hour. Because, as Daniel Saynt put it, “it isn’t fashion without an after party.”


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C.G. Dutra: “Glyphosate is NOT safe for human consumption, no herbicide is safe for human or animal consumption. All herbicides have a job to do and that job is to 'Kill Life'.”
“Read what is said in this post about the 'Shikimate Pathway'. We have that pathway in our gut bacteria and Glyphosate uses that pathway to kill organisms. This is 'full acknowledgement' of what Glyphosate does to our guts that makes us ill. This is HOW Glyphosate kills off our gut bacteria, which is our immune systems.”
C.G. Dutra: “Brain damage from antibiotic usage; Glyphosate residues in your GMO food puts an antibiotic into your body's system, which constitutes antibiotic usage.”
Antibiotics that kill gut bacteria also stop growth of new brain cells - 2016
Summary: Antibiotics strong enough to kill off gut bacteria can also stop the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus, a section of the brain associated with memory, reports a new study in mice. Researchers also uncovered a clue to why -- a type of white blood cell seems to act as a communicator between the brain, the immune system, and the gut.
'Troubling allegations' prompt Health Canada review of studies used to approve popular weed-killer
Health Canada says in light of "troubling allegations," its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Canada's most popular herbicide, Roundup.
The decision comes after a coalition of environmental groups claimed Health Canada relied on studies that were secretly influenced by agrochemical giant Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, when it re-approved use of glyphosate in 2015 and confirmed that decision in 2017.
The coalition, which includes Equiterre, Ecojustice, Canadian Physicians for the Environment and others, says academic papers looking at whether the herbicide causes cancer were presented to Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency as independent, when in fact Monsanto had a hand in writing them.
New Study Finds Harmful Agricultural Pesticides in Rural New York State Homes
“We found that pesticide residues are ubiquitous in rural homes in New York state,” said Laquatra, professor of design and environmental analysis, who noted that positive results for such chemicals were found in every house tested.
GE CHESTNUT TREE: ‘TROJAN HORSE’ AIMED AT OPENING DOOR TO RISKY GE TREES
If approved, it would be the first GE forest tree legalized in the US. It would also be the first GMO approved for release in the wild with the intention of spreading pollen to contaminate wild relatives with the engineered trait. If approved, the unregulated GE American chestnut would eventually replace the wild American chestnut, which would no longer exist in the forests.
After the ESF petition is accepted by the USDA it will be opened up for public comment – anticipated to be anytime in the next few months.
Specifically, the purveyors of factory farm turkeys hope you haven’t heard about the latest turkey salmonella outbreak in 35 states, causing 63 hospitalizations and at least one death.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
The outbreak strain of Salmonella Reading has been identified in various raw turkey products, including ground turkey and turkey patties. The outbreak strain has also been found in raw turkey pet food and live turkeys, indicating it might be widespread in the turkey industry."
Factory farm turkey producers also hope you’ve forgotten that avian flu and its prevention killed so many turkeys in 2015—at least 7.5 million—that turkey giant Jennie-O laid off 233 workers.
They hope you’ve forgotten that scientists at the Bloomberg School’s Center for a Livable Future and Arizona State’s Biodesign Institute found Tylenol, Benadryl, caffeine, statins and Prozac in feather meal samples that included U.S. turkeys—“a surprisingly broad spectrum of prescription and over-the-counter drugs,” said study co-author Rolf Halden of Arizona State University.
And finally, Butterball hopes you’ve forgotten that several of its employees were convicted of sickening animal cruelty and that veterinarian Dr. Sarah Mason admits tipping off Butterball about an imminent raid by Hoke County detectives to investigate the abuse.
Can consumers rely on labels to make good buying decisions? Not really…
Seneff: “This article on GMWatch is packed full of information on why GMOs are not working out the way they were expected to go.”
Bound to fail: The flawed scientific foundations of agricultural genetic engineering (part 1)
Now there's a new kid on the block: so-called gene editing, which includes the CRISPR-Cas method. Instead of trying to work out why the first generation of genetic engineering tools hasn't delivered or worked, so that maybe there could be lessons to be learned for the next generation, they are now coming up with the same promises – but even bigger, if that is possible.
There is no critical debate or analysis – least of all of the scientific reasons why GM didn't deliver the first time.
In 2014, on the topic of CRISPR-Cas, a Newsweek article stated, "GMO scientists could save the world from hunger, if we let them". Really? Saving the world with point mutations? Again? Have we not learned from the last 20 years, when we tried that and it didn't work?
SA Government rejects Monsanto’s Triple stacked GM Drought tolerant maize - Johannesburg 15 November 2018
The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) welcomes the decision of the South African biosafety authorities, rejecting Monsanto’s application for the commercial release of its GM drought tolerant triple stacked maize: MON 87460 x MON 89034 x NK 603.
At its meeting on the 2nd October 2018, the Executive Council: GMO Act, refused to authorize the GM maize for commercial growing as it found that the data provided by Monsanto was insufficient to demonstrate the claimed drought tolerant and insect resistant efficacy of the GM event.
In particular, the EC found that the drought tolerant field trial data presented by Monsanto for trials conducted over a period of 5 years (2014-2018) in Hopetown, Orania, Lutzville and Malelane, were sorely wanting.
The EC found that the drought data provided by Monsanto, specifically the kernel count per row and the kernel count per ear data showed no statistical significant difference between the GM event and conventional maize.
California Consumer Sues Quaker Oats over Glyphosate Contamination
According to the Quaker Oats complaint, the defendants sell, manufacturer and market several products under the Quaker Oats brand and make “several detailed representations about the health attributes of the products on the front of the product packages.”
The suit references recent testing by the Environmental Working Group which revealed that the defendants’ products contain glyphosate..
The plaintiff holds PepsiCo Inc. and The Quaker Oats Co. Inc. responsible because the defendants allegedly made false product health representations and material omissions regarding the products’ labeling.
Seneff: “Rather than defending its food quality, it seems to me that Canada should heed the warnings coming from India and Italy, and fix its food supply. The US is most likely even worse than Canada in terms of glyphosate contamination in the food. But we don't bother to test so the world at large is largely unaware.”
Seneff: “Fascinating article about gut microbes in the brain.”
Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains?
The brain is a protected environment, partially walled off from the contents of the bloodstream by a network of cells that surround its blood vessels. Bacteria and viruses that manage to penetrate this blood-brain barrier can cause life-threatening inflammation. Some research has suggested distant microbes—those living in our gut—might affect mood and behavior and even the risk of neurological disease, but by indirect means. For example, a disruption in the balance of gut microbiomes could increase the production of a rogue protein that may cause Parkinson’s disease if it travels up the nerve connecting the gut to the brain.
The secret ingredients in our food may be a lead driver of our obesity, infertility, cancer, digestive problems, autism, brain fog, skin conditions, gluten sensitivity, allergies, fatigue, anxiety, and many other conditions. Meet more than a dozen people whose turned around serious health conditions after adopting a diet that avoids genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and food sprayed with toxic herbicides like Roundup. Learn from leading physicians who say that these are not coincidences. They see illness and recovery like this every day in their practice. And listen to the scientists who explain why.


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Stations simulcasting their HD multicast programming on an analog FM translator get the best of both worlds.
So says iBiquity Digital President/CEO Bob Struble. “Get that translator’s antenna up high enough, and it’s basically a new Class A for the cost of the HD Radio upgrade. Stations get instant incremental revenue … and they stake out the digital high ground … in a market that adds HD Radio receivers at the rate of one every six seconds.”
In Struble’s latest edition of his thoughts on radio’s digital future, he points out from 2010 to 2013, the industry saw 50% annual growth in HD Radio receiver sales. Most of that was automotive. Almost 30% of new cars will ship with HD Radio receivers in 2013 and by next year, there won’t be an auto dealer in the country that does not have HD Radio equipped vehicles on the lot, according to the tech executive.
He points to “dozens” of HD-on-translator success stories, as the practice has been generating “significant audience and advertising dollars” in large as well as small markets. Some of his favorite include: WYDS(FM), Decatur, Ill, WKCN(FM), Columbus, Ga., and WMJJ(FM), Birmingham, Al.
Those who own or lease translators can use these channels as blank canvases to develop young talent and test new formats. That’s possible even with a limited staff, he continued, pointing out that SummitMedia in Birmingham recently partnered with a local Internet-only operation to carry their programming on its HD2/translator combo.


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Indian gherkin, jalapeno and preserved food producer the Global Green Company has acquired Belgium-based food processor the Intergarden Group for a total of EUR50m (US$64.13m), the largest such acquisition made by an Indian company in the food processing sector.
The deal, Global Green said, will provide the company with a foothold in European markets. It is already present in North America, Russia and the Asia Pacific region.
Intergarden is the largest gherkin producer in Europe, with factories located in Belgium, Hungary, Turkey and India. It produced pickled products such as gherkins, silverskin onions, sour cherries, red peppers, capers and mixed vegetables for the private label category.
The Global Green Company is a member of the US$2.1bn Thapar Group, one of India’s largest industrial conglomerates.
“This acquisition … validates the strength of our group’s business and the confidence and trust global players have in us. More than ever, it also reiterates our commitment to creating a globally successful Indian company,” said Gautam Thapar.
The acquisition makes Global Green the third-largest pickle supplier in the world, with a total turnover of $100m. The company said that it also opened avenues for expansion – significantly increasing its product range and customer base.
“In Intergarden, we have acquired a business and a set of competencies that perfectly complement our own,” said Vineet Chhabra, Global Green MD. “It extends our global footprint, giving us better access to our customers, and reinforces our commitment to “seed to shelf” service to the global retail chains.”
“For India, this acquisition is also a significant milestone,” Chhabra added. “It marks the recognition of the country’s potential in the food processing industry and confidence in our ability to be a player of significance in the global industry.”


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The Indian government has made a fool of itself and caused anxiety among citizens with a woefully misguided proposal for a national encryption policy that it’s just released to the public for feedback.
While its mission is to “provide confidentiality of information” and ensure “protection of sensitive or proprietary information”, the policy essentially calls for online services operating in India to hand over their encryption keys to the government — similar to what the NSA wants for spying on US citizens.
An ‘expert’ group set up by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has proposed a framework that requires every citizen to store plain text versions of all encrypted data from their devices for 90 days and produce it upon request from law enforcement agencies.
Most people wouldn’t even know which parts of their correspondence, login details across several services, software downloads and other data are encrypted, much less be able to capture and store it. That’s just not how things work.
Other gems from the draft include:
Service Providers located within and outside India, using Encryption technology for providing any type of services in India must enter into an agreement with the Government for providing such services in India. Government will designate an appropriate agency for entering into such an agreement with the Service provider located within and outside India.
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Encryption algorithms and key sizes will be prescribed by the Government.
There are thousands of services based outside the country that encrypt users’ data. DeitY expects them all to play ball and offer the government backdoors into their secure data.
By attempting to prescribe a limited set of encryption technologies, the proposal could make things easier for potential attackers and put service providers and their users at risk.
With that, the Indian government has once again proven itself to be out of touch with issues of privacy and online security.
Pranesh Prakash, Policy Director at Center for Internet and Society in Bangalore, told The Times of India he found it strange that ‘sensitive departments’ of the government are exempt from the policy. “What the government ought to be doing is setting minimum standards for encryption for governmental use. But here, they are doing the opposite,” he said.
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Prudential Plc has posted rising profits led by growth in Asia during the first six months of 2018.
The group saw IFRS operating profit rise by 9% to £2,405 million (around US$3,093 million) on a constant exchange rate basis, it revealed in its half year results this morning. The first half dividend was increased by 8% to 15.67p per share.
Group chief executive Mike Wells said the business had delivered “high-quality, profitable growth,” while at the same time taking necessary steps ahead of the demerger of M&G Prudential from the group, which was revealed in March.
Asia saw double-digit growth across the board with new business profit rising 11% to £1,122 million, IFRS operating profit up 14% to £1,016 million, and underlying free surplus generation up 14% to £590 million.
In the UK and Europe, Wells said continued demand for M&G Prudential’s differentiated product propositions had resulted in third-party net inflows of £3.5 billion for the asset management business, M&G, and net inflows of £4.4 billion in PruFund-related business.
The planned demerger of M&G Prudential from the group, which will result in two separately listed companies, is progressing well, according to the firm.
Wells, who described the demerger as demonstrating Prudential’s “commitment to creating shareholder value,” said the implementation of the group’s merger and transformation programme remains on track to meet its objectives.
“Each of our businesses is built around strong and growing customer needs, and we continue to target growth in high-quality, recurring-premium health and protection and fee business,” the chief executive said of the results. “I am confident that, as we create new and better products, build our distribution channels and improve all our capabilities, we are well placed to continue to generate profitable growth for our shareholders.”


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NetDragon still learning how to profit from education, as investors grow impatient
The company’s education unit overtook its older gaming division in terms of revenue last year, even as the former lost money
- NetDragon’s revenue fell 1.5% in the second half of last year, reversing a 26% rise in the first half
- The company is laying the groundwork to become a provider of high-margin education services using its Promethean brand of classroom-based interactive panels
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Education pays, but games pay more.
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Ltd. (0777.HK) learned that lesson when markets opened on Tuesday in Hong Kong, as shareholders punished its stock after the release of an annual earnings report that showed its revenue contracted and its profit fell sharply in the second half of 2022. NetDragon’s revenue comes from a mix of games and education services, and the company is one of China’s oldest gaming companies.
On the broadest basis, NetDragon looks relatively impressive for its ability to consistently run a profitable gaming operation with a strong overseas component over its two decades of history. Apart from industry leaders Tencent (0700.HK) and NetEase (NTES.US; 9999.HK), few mid-sized gaming companies can make a similar claim.
At the same time, the company is building up what looks like a savvy education strategy that involves getting its interactive panels into classrooms as a key teaching aide, both in China and around the world. While that business is very low margin, NetDragon is laying the foundation to introduce instructional software to be used in those panels, a much higher-margin, recurring revenue business known as software as a service (SaaS).
The company has yet to reap rewards from that higher-margin educational SaaS business. But it formed a strategic partnership midway through last year and made a key acquisition late in the year to move in that direction. Whether it can succeed is another matter, as sales of its educational interactive panels, which it sells under the Promethean brand, totaled just 253,000 last year. While that figure was up 37.5% from 2021, it’s still relatively small.
Investors were unimpressed with the educational unit’s potential and focused on the company’s stumbling revenue and plunging profit in the second half of the year instead. The stock opened 15% lower the day after the report’s publication and was still down sharply late in the morning.
The company operates in two of China’s most risk-prone sectors, so the fact that it can remain profitable more than two decades after its founding seems relatively impressive.
China watchers will know that its core gaming business comes under regular attack by Chinese regulators who are constantly trying to rein in the industry to reduce its influence on the nation’s youth. Private education services are also a touchy area, and were the subject of a massive clampdown two years ago that wiped out much of the sector. A few companies have survived that by shifting their focus from K-12 education to less-sensitive college students and adults, though most have yet to return to profitability.
NetDragon didn’t have any problems staying in the black last year, though its profit in the second half of the year dropped 57% to 269 million yuan ($39 million) compared with the year-ago period, according to our calculations using company data from the latest report. That marked an acceleration from the 21% profit decline in the first half, as the company got caught up in a mix of turbulence created by China’s strict Covid-control measures, combined with lingering effects of the latest gaming and education crackdowns.
NetDragon summarized things by calling 2022 “a year of both opportunities and challenges,” echoing the sentiment by many Chinese companies.
Gaming old timer
Despite its lesser-known status, NetDragon is one of China’s oldest gaming companies, with a history dating back to 2001. It has worked with big names like Disney (DIS.US) and Electronic Arts (EA.US) over the years, and added education services to its portfolio with the establishment of a joint venture in 2014.
Games and education have varied in their contributions to the company’s business, but have roughly taken a 50-50 share over at least the last five or six years. Education overtook games in terms of revenue last year, after revenue from the latter fell 7.8% in the second half of the year and the former rose by 5.6%. That led the company’s overall revenue to decline 1.5% to 3.6 billion yuan in the second half of the year, reversing a 26% revenue gain in the first half.
From a broader perspective NetDragon’s diversified revenue stream looks generally good. The big problem lies in the huge profitability gap for the two businesses. Games are hugely profitable, boasting a gross margin of 95.6% for last year. Education is a major slacker, at least in that regard, with a gross margin of just 23.2% – and that was down sharply from 30.8% the previous year.
The company is trying to improve the education business’ profitability by laying the groundwork for the rollout of higher-margin services to offer over the many hardware panels that it’s selling into classrooms both in China and overseas. To that end, it acquired a digital whiteboard platform operator called Explain Everything in December, and said it will use the company to create lessons, activities and interactive presentations to offer over its Promethean panels.
Earlier last year in June, it also entered into a strategic partnership with a company called Merlyn Mind, which specializes in AI technology that NetDragon hopes to build into its future SaaS education products and services.
The company also continues to invest in its gaming business, hiring 300 new R&D team members last year to take advantage of an expected market recovery in 2023. It also continues to expand that business globally to diversify from the lucrative but clampdown-prone China market, with overseas markets accounting for 16% of its gaming revenue last year.
The Tuesday selloff marks an ongoing underappreciation of NetDragon’s shares by investors. The stock now trades at a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of just 7, far lower than NetEase’s 21 and 33 times for China East Education (0667.HK), a provider of vocational training services.
The skepticism is probably at least partly justified, since the education business is currently losing money and needs to prove it can become profitable in the next one to two years. The company’s strategy for reaching that profitability certainly seems valid and it’s making the right moves in that direction. Its longer-term ability to stay in business in such a changeable environment also seems to show the company’s education drive could have a reasonable chance of success.
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The digital advertising ecosystem is in the midst of a significant overhaul to deliver a more private web than ever before.
This comes as individuals around the world rightly demand more online privacy and control. Searches for “online privacy” grew by more than 50% globally in 2020 compared to the previous year. It’s time to evolve to serve people better and foster greater levels of trust.
Over more than two decades of digital advertising, for better or for worse, cookie technology has become the industry standard. Programmatic advertising brought us into the precision era, where the majority of campaigns are utilizing third-party cookies to target and track the delivery of digital advertising. As the industry shifts to a more private web, here’s what you need to know.
The new browser reality
Since mid-2019, Google’s Chrome team has been working to develop a new set of open standards — the Privacy Sandbox — to enhance online privacy in collaboration with the wider industry. We’re working with hundreds of stakeholders in advertising, publishing, and web infrastructure to create new solutions that will improve online transparency, choice, and control.
Other browsers began blocking third-party cookies in recent years to prevent unwanted consumer tracking. We’ve seen this can lead to unintended consequences and sometimes undermine people’s privacy, encouraging opaque tracking techniques such as fingerprinting. That’s why Google is exploring a fuller range of solutions with industry input.
In January, Chrome shared an update on progress in the Privacy Sandbox, outlining new proposals that are being tested this year, which are showing promising results. The proposals include privacy-safe ways to find the right audiences for ads, measure ad campaign effectiveness, and predict and protect against fraud.
This Chrome post was published alongside an update from the Google Ads team explaining how the advertising industry has been evaluating and testing these proposals to ensure digital marketers are ready for the changes.
One such promising proposal is called Federated Learning of Cohorts — or FLoC — which groups together users with similar browsing behaviours, as opposed to identifying people individually. Our tests using FLoC to reach in-market and affinity audiences showed that advertisers can expect to see at least 95% of conversions per dollar spent when compared to cookie-based affinity audiences. Chrome intends to open up this new method for public testing later in 2021.
As Chrome and the wider industry continue to test and learn, we know brands and marketers need actionable solutions now to prepare for the upcoming changes. Here are key priority areas to address in 2021:
- Build direct relationships with your customers
- Keep your data connected and clean
- Consider Google’s global site tag for more effective measurement
- Take the long view
1. Build direct relationships with your customers
The old approach of depending upon an external company (and third-party cookies) to get closer to your customers is coming to an end. As the digital marketing ecosystem continues to be reshaped by privacy regulations and tech changes. One thing we know for sure is that building a strong marketing analytics and first party data backbone will be a marketers most valued asset to adapt to change.
At its core, first-party data signifies a direct relationship between a person and a business, with data shared knowingly and with permission. At key moments along the customer journey — whether during an account creation, a purchase, or a subscription sign-up — people share information about themselves and trust that the other party will protect it and use it responsibly.
Brands can take steps to learn more about customers through loyalty programmes, exclusive offers, and coupons. Over time, as people engage regularly with their preferred providers, these businesses gain deeper insights into their customers or audiences, and can ultimately serve them better, with personalised and customised offerings. This give-and-take process is called the “value exchange.”
2. Keep your data connected and clean
To get your business in the best possible shape, you need to ensure your first-party data is cleaned up, well maintained and connected within your internal systems. This will help you avoid any operational hiccups as third-party data is phased out.
According to a 2020 Boston Consulting Group study commissioned by Google, marketers that use all of the first-party data available to them can generate double the incremental revenue from a single ad placement, communication, or outreach.
Three years ago, Canadian retailer Loblaw Digital unlocked new opportunities for campaign targeting and measurement, by forming a Marketing Intelligence Team to connect the marketing and media ecosystem to the company’s centralized data environment. With their data out of silos, and connected to the right technology platforms, the team was able to use a range of insights from grocery stores to health and beauty, to fashion, to help teams make data-driven marketing decisions and improve the customer experience.
3. Consider Google’s global site tag for more effective measurement
There are actionable steps that marketers can be taking today to prepare themselves for this post-cookie digital marketing ecosystem. One important tactic to consider is using Google’s global site tag if you advertise online with us. Adding this tag to each page of your website is a simple way to improve the accuracy of your online conversion measurements and give you insights to help optimise your digital marketing campaigns.
The global site tag will help you better manage future shifts in the measurement ecosystem:
- It sets first-party cookies within your site, which measure traffic and conversions across users who provide their consent.
- It allows businesses to integrate the latest features and add-ons as they become available.
This will help provide a more holistic view of customer actions across Google properties using your own proprietary first-party data.
4. Take the long view
A recent international survey by Cisco found that more than 70% of organizations reported significant business benefits from their privacy investments, with improved operational efficiencies, reduced sales delays and increased customer loyalty. This requires taking a long-term view.
It may be tempting to pursue short-term actions like buying data sets or using identity-based device advertising tools such as fingerprinting. However, marketers should consider whether this is the right choice. Is the shortcut worth violating people’s expectations of privacy? Marketers should ask themselves: how could this reflect on our brand?
Now is the time to take the long-term view: invest in building trusted customer relationships, invest in a strong first-party data strategy, and invest in a privacy-forward online experience. Making decisions in the spirit of consumer privacy means not trying to build replacements for the status quo. Embracing the new paradigm of consumer centricity means building durable data and technology infrastructure in the spirit of the trends that we’re seeing in the market.
A privacy-focused future is coming. This is the direction of travel in the industry. This is the path forward for Chrome. And this is what you need to do to stay close to your customers. Performance is not at odds with privacy. It’s important to be working with partners that can do both well, and are taking the long view of how to balance these critical priorities.
Learn more about how the industry has evolved its approach to third-party cookies over the years.


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Hauliers serving music concerts, sports and cultural events will be able to move their vehicles freely between Great Britain and the EU from late summer.
Bedford and Kempston MP Mohammad Yasin has opened a new cycle parking hub at Bedford station.
A technology business which helps logistics firms to engage their self-employed workforce is celebrating after being shortlisted for a 2022 National Business Award.
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that, subject to final safety approvals, the Elizabeth line will open on Tuesday 24 May 2022.
Carlton Forest 3PL has extended its service offering to support the ongoing container challenges experienced by UK business.
The Cheshire West and Chester County Council e-scooter trial has been extended until 30 November 2022, with e-scooter riders in Chester having travelled 180,000 miles.
Palletline, the palletised freight distribution company, has received a double accolade in this year’s RoSPA Workplace Safety and Health Awards.
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China’s Xiaomi throws down gauntlet to rival Android handset makers, Apple with launch of Leica Camera-equipped smartphones
- The new 12S-series smartphones unveiled by Xiaomi feature advanced imaging systems co-engineered with German partner Leica
- The launch reflects Xiaomi founder Lei Jun’s pledge to ratchet up the firm’s challenge to Apple in the high-end segment of the smartphone market
Xiaomi’s three new Android models, including the top-of-the-line 12S Ultra, combine Leica’s in-depth understanding of optics, image processing and image quality with the 12-year-old Chinese firm’s experience in smartphone computing photography, according to a joint statement released in Beijing on Monday.
Xiaomi’s new 12S Ultra, which the company touts as the first Android device to support Hollywood-style Dolby Vision high-definition video recording and playback, starts from 5,999 yuan (US$895). Prices for the 12S Pro and 12S start from 4,699 yuan and 3,999, respectively.
Shares of Xiaomi in Hong Kong closed down 3.47 per cent to HK$13.36 on Tuesday.
“For almost a decade now, we have been successfully incorporating our know-how into camera systems in the smartphone segment,” said Matthias Harsch, Leica’s chief executive, in a separate statement released on Monday in the firm’s home city of Wetzlar, Germany. “Today, we and Xiaomi have come together to present the beginning of a new era in the world of smartphone photography.”
Apple’s iPhone also continued to lead the world’s premium smartphone market segment, covering handsets priced from US$400, with a 62 per cent share in the first quarter this year, according to data released by Counterpoint Research on June 23. It said the iPhone 13 has been the world’s bestselling premium smartphone since October last year.


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Samuel Spangenberg, former employe of Uber, alleges in court documents that Uber employees are able to track anyone using a real-time “aerial” program called God View. This declaration was submitted to the California courts and follows a lawsuit against Uber where Spangenberg is alleging wrongful termination, defamation, and age discrimination. Uber generally denied each claim in their response.
According to Reveal, they spoke with five former Uber employees who all said that employees could easily track customers. Michael Sierchio, who had previously worked for Uber as a Senior Security Engineer said “When I was at the company, you could stalk an ex or look up anyone’s ride with the flimsiest of justifications” and that “It didn’t require anyone’s approval.”
initially the God View application was investigated by the New York Attorney General, but the investigation was later expanded to review the timeline of a data breach that was reported in 2015. In January of this year, Uber was fined $20,000 for “its failure to report unauthorized third-party access to drivers’ personal information in a timely fashion”. This was because they had waited until February 26, 2015 to report a data breach that had occurred “on or about May 12, 2014”
As part of the settlement, Uber was to remove “all personally identifiable information of riders from its system that provides an aerial view of cars active in a city, has limited employee access to personally identifiable information of riders, and has begun auditing employee access to personally identifiable information in general.”
In addition, Uber had also implemented a pop-up message warning employees that their activity was being monitored as well as searches for customers considered “MVPs.” were flagged. However, the employees Reveal interviewed said that “not much had changed since January and the new policies were never enforced”.


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Hurricane Ian recovery continues with help from Verizon Business, Collaboratory and Florida TaxWatch
FORT MYERS, Fla. - More than five months after Hurricane Ian decimated parts of Florida, 25 small businesses in the region are continuing their recovery efforts with some help from a unique partnership between Verizon Business and two non-profits.
Verizon has donated $250,000 to Collaboratory, a local non-profit community problem-solving organization in Southwest Florida, and Florida TaxWatch, a trusted non-profit that promotes economic development across the state that serves as the ‘eyes and ears’ of Florida taxpayers.
Collaboratory and Florida TaxWatch worked with community leaders to select the final 25 small businesses – ranging from family-owned coffee shops and bait and tackle businesses to a floral truck and wedding venue. Each received a $10,000 grant in December 2022.
The funds come at an important moment after Hurricane Ian, which is estimated to be one of the costliest natural disasters of 2022, left many businesses destroyed or without the resources to rebuild. According to some estimates, up to 25 percent of small and midsize businesses could be forced to permanently close without immediate financial support.
“We’re proud of our commitment and our partnerships to help small and medium size businesses continue on their path to recovery long after Ian’s initial impact,” said Aparna Khurjekar, Chief Revenue Officer, Business Markets and SaaS at Verizon Business. “Small businesses are the bedrock of the local communities we serve, and by helping them recover, we’re able to see these communities thrive once again.”
“Verizon Business’s donation in the wake of Hurricane Ian has provided our community’s small businesses with critical relief as recovery efforts continue,” said Sarah Owen, President and CEO of Collaboratory. “There’s a long road ahead of us, and along with caring companies like Verizon Business, Southwest Florida will rebuild into a more resilient region.”
“Small businesses are the backbone of Florida’s economy, so when tragedy strikes or natural disasters hit, like when Hurricane Ian severely impacted Southwest Florida, it’s important that companies, nonprofits, and neighbors throughout the state come together and help them recover. That’s exactly what’s been done here with this $250,000 donation from Verizon, distributed with the help of Florida TaxWatch and Collaboratory,” said Dominic M. Calabro, President and CEO of Florida TaxWatch. “Florida TaxWatch is honored to partner with Verizon and Collaboratory to advance small business resiliency and ensure that they survive and thrive in Southwest Florida.”
"We are inspired by the resilience of our small business community in Lee County as they continue to rebuild and recover following Hurricane Ian. While the storm caused significant disruption, we are committed to the goal of not just bouncing back, but coming back stronger than ever before and applaud Verizon for their assistance in making this a reality,” said Brian Hamman, President & CEO of the Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce. “Our Chamber of Commerce stands with these businesses, offering our support and resources as we work together towards a brighter future for our community."
Small business owner Captain Ozzie Lessinger, who is one of the recipients of a $10,000 grant, said the money has been transformative not just for his fishing business, but for the entire local economy.
"The fishing guide community has been hit extremely hard by Hurricane Ian,” he said. “This grant is making a huge difference for my business, and Verizon’s support of our industry is very much appreciated.”
For more information, visit Verizon.com.


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A leaked roadmap concerning the future of Android
has appeared online, forcing Qualcomm
company officials to demand it's removal. Technology blogs have been ordered to remove the image due to it containing "confidential and copyrighted information" posted without the authorization of Qualcomm, despite the information revealed in the image to have already been expected by some parties.
The slides, originally published by Android Police and Android Authority
before being taken offline, shows the timings of a future Android release. This is not much of a surprise, as Google I/O is scheduled for mid-May, and some sort of Android-related release would have been expected to be announced at that time, regardless of leaks from manufacturers.
Though usually leaks are published with little to no intervention from product manufacturers, the stance by Qualcomm to try and remove all copies of the slides from the Internet is unusual. By actively attempting to remove the details from the Internet, some believe that Qualcomm is effectively confirming the details of the leak to be correct. While the removal of information is working to a degree, Qualcomm risks further publication of the image by larger numbers than it can control, in what is called the Streisand Effect


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Miami Fashion Week has a lot to celebrate this year seeing as it’s the event’s 15th year in existence.
Yes, as New York and Europe bidf arewell to their respective Fashion Weeks, Miami is gearing up for its very own starting March 20, 2013 at The Miami Beach Convention Center.
The fashion 411? As the largest International and Hispanic fashion event in the U.S., Miami Fashion Week brings the best in international and Latin fashion, beauty, music, cuisine and art to the forefront of the American fashion scene.
With a crossover of international culture from designers, entertainers and celebrities from around the world including Spain, India, Italy, Greece, Canada, Malaysia, Kingdom of Bahrain, Pakistan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico and all countries throughout South and Central America presenting their latest collections in women’s day and evening wear, men’s wear, swimwear, jewelry and accessories with hundreds of international media, jet-setters and fashion royalty arriving to attend the shows.
All shows and special events are designer and celebrity personal appearances, closing with the Miami Moda & Music Awards, a celebrity fashion and entertainment awards show featuring special guest designers and international recording artists.
The Culinary Style Café sponsored by Whole Foods Market, Centerplate and Johnson & Wales University will feature a different celebrity chef each night preparing a fashionable tasting menu reflecting the countries and cultures of the designers showing during the event. Each course will be accompanied with a different wine pairing to further compliment the dish.
With over 650 international press register each year for the event including Bravo, Yahoo!, CNN en Español, Fashion TV International, Glitz TV Latin America, Gulf News and The New York Times as well as hundreds of buyers from around the world — it’s not to be missed, South Florida fashioniostas.
Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased here.


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Travel Coalition Asks U.S. to State Travel is Safe for Healthy Americans
Insider Travel Report
March 10, 2020
A coalition of 150 travel-related organizations, led by the U.S. Travel Association, is asking U.S. government officials to state that, despite the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it is still safe to travel for Americans and that the risks remain low. Those travel organizations also notes that decisions to cancel major events and conferences have had a trickle-down effect on the U.S. economy.